In Her Own Voice

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Nine essays offer thoughtful analyses of 19th-century nonfiction writing by women, examining the writers themselves, their work, and their careers, and adding an important element to critical understanding of women's literary history. Discussion includes how this literature affected and reflected 19th-century ideas of public and private, political and personal, and feminine and masculine. Among those studied are some well-known names<-->Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, and Fanny Fern<-->as well as less- or little-known writers such as Gail Hamilton, Anna Julia Cooper, Ann Sophia Stephens, and Zitkala-Sa. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.